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Chapter 8 Test Key

The document provides examples and practice problems for calculating binomial probabilities using a calculator. It includes examples of exactly, at least, and at most problems as well as combining binomial and geometric probabilities. Practice problems cover topics like coin flips, baseball batting averages, quiz scores, and sampling populations with a given probability.

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Chapter 8 Test Key

The document provides examples and practice problems for calculating binomial probabilities using a calculator. It includes examples of exactly, at least, and at most problems as well as combining binomial and geometric probabilities. Practice problems cover topics like coin flips, baseball batting averages, quiz scores, and sampling populations with a given probability.

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Chapter 8 worksheet AP Stats Name_________________________


Using the calculator instead of the formula
The binomial PDF is the “probability distribution function” that calculates the formula for you!!

2nd/distr/ 0:binompdf

Fexactly this
n
p
binompdf(___________, _____________, _____________)

Binomial CDF is the “cumulative distribution function” that calculates UP TO the value of X. (so it adds pdf’s
together)

2nd/distr/ A:binomcdf
add up to this
n x
p
binomcdf(__________, ____________, _______________)

Exactly Problems

1. A fair coin is tossed 12 times. What is the probability of obtaining exactly 10 heads?
A. 0.0029 B. 0.1208 C. 0.0161 D. 0.0537

2. A fair coin is tossed 15 times. What is the probability of obtaining exactly 13 heads?
A. 0.0032 B. 0.0005 C. 0.0417 D. 0.0139

3. At a certain intersection, the light for eastbound traffic is red for 15 seconds, yellow for 5 seconds, and green
for 30 seconds. Find, to the nearest tenth, the probability that out of the next eight eastbound cars that arrive
randomly at the light, exactly three will be stopped by a red light.

red p binompdf 8 3,3 2541


4. Jim can drive a golf ball over 200 yards 40% of the time. He regularly plays on a golf course where drives of
that distance are needed on 12 holes. Determine the probability that exactly 7 of his drives will be over 200
yards.

binompdf 12 4 7 101
5. A fair coin is tossed 12 times. What is the probability of obtaining exactly 1 head? Write out the formula
and the calculator sequence. Then give answer as a four-place decimal.

binompdf 12 5 1 0029
6. You are going to toss a fair coin five times. Which has the same probability as P(5 tails)?
A. P(2 heads and 3 tails) B. P(1 head and 4 tails) C. P(4 heads and 1 tail) D. P(5 heads)
At Least/At Most Problems

7. Tim Parker, a star baseball player, hits one home run for every ten times he is at bat. If Parker goes to bat
five times during tonight’s game, what is the probability that he will hit at least four home runs?

I binned f 5 1,3 00046


8. Mrs. Gruber gave her history class a multiple choice quiz containing five questions. A student must answer
at least four correctly to pass. Greg decides to guess on every question. If each of the four possible answers to
each question is equally likely to be chosen, what is the probability that Greg passed the quiz?

1 binoncdf 5 25 3 015625
9. Dave does not tell the truth ¾ of the time. Find the probability that he will tell the truth at most twice out of
the next five times.

binomedf 5.25 2 89648


10. East West Airlines has a good reputation for being on time. The probability that one of its flights will be on
time is 0.91. If Mrs. Williams flies East West for her next five flights, what is the probability that at least three
of them will be on time? Round your answer to the nearest thousandth.

I binned f 5 91 2 9937
Normal curve approximation

11. While he was a prisoner of war during World War II, John Kerrich tossed a coin 10,000 times. He got
5067 heads. If the coin is perfectly balanced, the probability of a head is 0.5.

A) Find the mean and the standard deviation of the number of heads in 10,000 tosses, assuming the coin is

1
perfectly balanced.
1000065 5000
B) Explain why NormalOF
approximation 00016 50 probabilities involving the number of
is appropriate for calculating
heads in 10,000 tosses.
nd p 210 10000 s 5000
largecountsrule np
10000 1 5 5000 Yes
C) Is there a reason to think that Kerrich’s coin was not balanced? To answer this question, use a Normal
distribution to estimate the probability that tossing a balanced coin 10,000 times would give a count of
heads at least this far from 5000 as Kerrich’s result. (That is, at least 5067 heads or no more than 4933
heads)
PCX 4933 or P X 5067
qq.mg area 091227
091227 80245
area

There's an 18.02 chance of gettinga result this extreme just


randomchance It is not that stage No reason suspectunbalanced to
Various Practice problems – Geometric and Binomial combined:

12. Assume that 13% of people are left-handed. If we select 5 people at random, find the probability of each
outcome described below.

A) The first lefty is the fifth person chosen.

Geometric 87746 3 0745


B) There are some lefties among the 5 people.

Binomial I PX 0 1 875 501579


C) The first lefty is the second or third person.

Geometric PX 2 orP1131 87363 1.877 137.211497


D) There are exactly 3 lefties in the group.

Binomial PA 3 binompdfs 13,37 016629


E) There are at least 3 lefties in the group.

Binomial PIX 3 1 binompdfl5 13,2 0179


F) There are no more than 3 lefties in the group.

Binomial PIX
13. Consider our group of 5 people from Question 12.

A) How many lefties do you expect?

B) With what standard deviation?

C) If we keep picking people until we find a lefty, how long do you expect it will take?

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